Usage

Summaries

Understand the final summary, choose the summary agent, and disable the summary if needed.

At the end of a debate or Ask request, Palabre can ask an agent to produce a final summary.

Summary format

The final summary requests four sections:

Consensus
Disagreements / uncertainties
Proposed actions
Conclusion

The first three sections are structured as lists. Conclusion is a short prose paragraph for quickly understanding what to take away.

Summary agent

In debate mode, Palabre uses defaults.summaryAgent when it exists. Otherwise, it uses agent B.

In Ask mode, Palabre uses defaults.askSummaryAgent when it exists, then defaults.summaryAgent, then the last Ask agent.

To choose the summary agent for a command:

palabre codex-claude "Critique this plan" --summary-agent claude

To configure a summary agent specific to Ask mode:

palabre config --ask-summary-agent opencode

To also choose the model:

palabre codex-ollama "Critique this plan" --summary-agent ollama-local --summary-model <installed-ollama-model>

Disable the summary

palabre codex-claude "Critique this plan" --no-summary

Readability

In the terminal, the standard rendering formats the summary headings to make them easier to scan.

In the .debate.md or .ask.md export, the final summary is separated from the transcript or responses by a horizontal rule and begins with a table indicating the agent, role, and production date.

Context and files

Add context to a debate with --files or --context while keeping control over the data transmitted.

Exports

Learn where Palabre writes Markdown exports and what they contain after a debate or Ask request.